Missing Witches

Missing Witches episodes:

• 04.15.2024

  MW Rx. 46 - I’m Burning So I Will Bring The Light

  In this week's prescription we've got The Meat Puppets, Bikini Kill, and Boygenius in our ears. The solar eclipse in Aries this past week called out to our warrior selves, and the call is still echoing. Take some time...

  
• 04.11.2024

  We Are Granite Kin

  Welcome back to the spring season of the Missing Witches podcast, our Kinship Season, which is dedicated to getting familiar with our familiars. This is where we take time to learn from our more than human kin. In the fall...

  
• 04.08.2024

  MW Rx. 45 - Carry On, Love Is Coming

  A Black woman artist holds the top spots on country music charts and planetary bodies are coming into perfect alignment. Portals do open and things will change. After a week in the car listening to Beyonce's requiem for America, it's...

  
• 04.04.2024

  We Are Bat Kin

  I am a creature of the night.  The bible says I’m unclean.  I’ve been painted as evil because I’m special in ways that people could not understand.  I fly in the dark, defying the laws of what men know. Mysterious,...

  
• 04.01.2024

  MW Rx. 44 - Sing The Body Electric

  This week we are listening to plants and synthesizers. And we are calling back our power. One self-prescription for this season is to luxuriate in fruit. Let yourself be seduced by colour, generous sweetness, and the way fruit makes...

  
• 03.28.2024

  We Are Lichen Kin

  We want to thank Tasha Lavdovsky for allowing us to share their music in this episode, the lichens of the Sooke Hills Wilderness Park are the source of the chemical dataset that has been translated into piano music for the...

  
• 03.19.2024

  Ostara 2024 - A Taste Of The Coven: VISUAL ART

  For the first day of Spring, we invite you to listen in on a meeting of the Missing Witches Coven, and maybe make some art!! How does art-making figure into your practice of the Craft?  Do you make wreaths like Bri,...

  
• 03.18.2024

  MW Rx. 43 - Yes, We Practice Magic

  This week we're inspred by Toth, The Indigo Girls, The Beatles and Fugazi. "I wanna be happy for no reason / Like the sun rising exactly / In every season / You've been here before‚ you opened the door / You...

  
• 03.14.2024

  WF Christopher Marmolejo of Red Tarot - A Tarot Reading Queers Time

  "Christopher Marmolejo is a queer Indigenous teacher committed to radical community healing and building. They bring traditional teaching experience as an English teacher, intensive study as an astrologer, and their personal articulation of the tarot archetypes to their classes, workshops,...

  
• 03.11.2024

  MW Rx. 42 - Join The March To The Witch's Castle

  This week Amy offers the end of war, and the way war doesn't end for those who lived it, and the image of the Witch's castle as the place we can all come to find some meaning in the senseless...

  
• 03.04.2024

  MW Rx. 41 - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

  This week, the magic begins with the lost-but-found 70's psych rock album by Ted Lucas, recorded sometime after Motown left Detroit and he lost his job as the house 'exotic string specialist'. Lucas, who had studied with Ravi Shankar and...

  
• 02.29.2024

  WF Anikim Lamoureux - Find Your Own Voice

  "We are creative beings." In today's episode, Amy sits down for a reunion with one of our first ever interviewees from season ONE of the Missing Witches podcast, Anikim Lamoureux! We're getting back together, five and a half...

  
• 02.26.2024

  MW Rx. 40 - It's Not An Act Of Love If You Make Her

  We left the woods, we went to the city, we spoke to a McGill University sociology class on social deviance about witchcraft and witch hunts, and we lugged ourselves across town till we collapsed. Amy's chronic illness took her out...

  
• 02.19.2024

  MW Rx. 39 - These Are Not My People

  This week left us feeling so lonely, so confused by the world, dropped to the bottom of the pit of WTF. So we turn to Backxwash, CSNY and Swamp Dogg. We can't stop caring: we feel like we owe...

  
• 02.16.2024

  WF Witch Hunt with Melissa James, Sarah Sharkey Pearce, Matthew Venus, Nick Dickinson and Michael M. Hughes

  For this special episode, we invite you to begin by pausing the podcast to join us in premiering Witch Hunt: " In a divided America, modern witches cast spells against political leaders, redefining protest in the process."Witch Hunt" explores the intersection...

  
• 02.12.2024

  MW Rx. 38 - We Have Sung In Tongues Of Angels And Then Stumbled On The Pavement

  This week the prescription is to follow bright stars, trace threads of hope to see where they lead, leave our egos at the door, and bring flowers to the feet of our crone singers, our comrades, sweethearts. Let's look at...

  
• 02.05.2024

  MW Rx. 37 - Don't You Treat Me Like I Was Born For Nothin'

  It's Imbolc weekend and we mark the inbetween, the blurred edges between dark and light. Not the Spring but the reminder that the Spring will come, eventually. This week maybe you need to just lie in the dark, no...

  
• 02.01.2024

  IMBOLC: Future Histories of Black Magic - Black Witch Council 2024

  The halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox is the perfect time to look back at the past and make assessments. In a literal sense, this is when I know whether or not I have enough firewood to outlast...

  
• 01.29.2024

  MW Rx. 36 - Handle With Care

  After a long conversation around inadequacy, Amy and Risa realize they never hit record. So join us in falling apart, and pulling it back together to repeat this message: Handle Me With Care. Call it Witch life or being an...

  
• 01.25.2024

  WF Dr. Marion Gibson - It Almost Feels Like They Are Waiting There For You

  https://www.missingwitches.com/wf-dr-marion-gibson-were-all-sharing-our-history-together/ In this week's episode, we get to meet Dr. Marion Gibson, a leading authority on the history of the witch trials. Throughout her career and especially in her latest book, WITCHCRAFT A History in 13 Trials, Marion haunts the archives,...

  
• 01.22.2024

  MW Rx.35 - Writing Love On The Ceiling

  This week's Rx is about starting fresh while weighted with histories, both personal and global, and last year's snow.

  
• 01.15.2024

  MW Rx. 34 - An Inter-dimensional Being

  Beaver dams and snow forts give way to notions of mortality and possibility.

  
• 01.11.2024

  WF Cara Kovacs - Business Is Personal AF

  In today's episode, Amy sits down with Cara Kovacs AKA The Business Witch. We talk about entrepreneurship as a liberatory practice, sex magic, social work, soul work, chronic illness, health insurance, toxic MLMs and pyramid schemes, and centring our...

  
• 01.08.2024

  MW Rx. 33 - Both Wave And Particle

  Risa and Amy discuss the promise of the dawn with KRS-ONE, the 5th Dimension, and Allison Russell. "And the only way we can understand the Aquarian message is to try to get closer together, in a real universal brotherhood,...

  
• 01.04.2024

  WF Sandra Huber - I Can Only Be Of Service If I Know Myself

  We saved this interview with Dr. Sandra Huber to start the new year right. Sandra talks about the tactics involved in teaching 900 students, and she talks about channeling and automatic writing, feminist practices and night industries. Using the Thoth...

  
• 12.21.2023

  2023 Solstice Special and Yuletide Party!

  Thank you all for another year full of wonder, awe, heartbreak, joy, mourning and laughter TOGETHER. In this episode we celebrate the longest night of the year with the Missing Witches Coven. We'll share songs and stories, poems...

  
• 12.18.2023

  MW Rx. 32 - Expand Into The Dark

  Climbing and clinging. The prescription this week is to care. Feel the All Mother in the lines of your hands. They and we are proud of you.

  
• 12.11.2023

  MW Rx. 31 - Our Circle, Our Cauldron

  Throw in whatever you bring. Empty your pockets; shake out your secrets; turn the dark corners of your past to our sight. We need all that we can bring that is true. Whether it tastes of honey or vinegar, salt...

  
• 11.30.2023

  WF Sarah Potter - Anyone Can Be A Witch, Everyone Is A Witch

  Sarah Potter talks about being dragged through the darkest parts of the underworld and coming out with new joy, new color, and entirely new spectrums of possibility. "Sarah Potter is a celebrity psychic medium, Tarot reader, and professional witch based...

  
• 11.27.2023

  MW Rx. 30 - The Wind

  "I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A "Rap" Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time" - Andre 3000

  
• 11.20.2023

  MW Rx. 29 - Unconquerable

  This week we're inspired by Jeremy Dutcher, Lakeesha Harris, Viktor Frankl, Labyrinth, Natalie Merchant, Joan Didion, and The Pointer Sisters, to shake out the rugs - literally and metaphorically. Let us not be divided. Let us gather, and make...

  
• 11.16.2023

  Carolyn Taylor - What Do You Keep And What Do You Throw Away?

  In this special episode, Risa talks with comedy legend Carolyn Taylor about how improvisation works and how we can use its practices to conjure brand-new things into the world. Carolyn talks about working with her friend Mae Martin, as well...

  
• 11.13.2023

  MW Rx. 28 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy

  The RX is back! Join Amy and Risa as we chat about options: laughing, crying, fighting, loving, mourning, dancing, amanita mushrooms, and hugging trees in times of war.

  
• 11.02.2023

  WF Benebell Wen: It Meets You Where You Are, And Then It Will Take You To Higher Ground.

  In this episode, Risa gets to soak in the wisdom and deep research of Benebell Wen. We explore the ancient shamanistic origins of the I Ching, and the ways our ideas, words, and discourse can shutter our windows or open...

  
• 10.31.2023

  Samhain 2023: Altaring Grief w Mara June AKA Motherwort And Rose

  We are all grieving. For this year's Samhain special we invited educator, facilitator, community weaver, writer, caregiver, death doula, and community herbalist Mara June AKA "Motherwort and Rose" to help counsel us through. Mara reminds us that there is dignity...

  
• 10.30.2023

  MW Empress Chen of Wu + Chen Jinggu - A Community of Sworn Sisters

  This season every story I started spilled out to become double, then multiple. As always happens when we go looking for Witches we’ve been missing, one led to more. This story starts with a Chinese Empress in the Imperial palaces...

  
• 10.26.2023

  WF Julia Voss, author of Hilma af Klint: A Biography - Put Your Feelers Out

  In this episode, Risa gets to interview the primary biographer of the first abstract expressionist artist, Hilma af Klint. We talk about taking her experiences seriously, we talk about the beauty of her vision, we talk about reaching our feelers...

  
• 10.23.2023

  Hilma af Klint + Anna Cassel: Life Is A Farce If A Person Does Not Serve Truth.

  In this ep, Risa tells the story of the first abstract expressionist, Hilma af Klint, and her collaborator Anna Cassel, and the circles of women and spirits with whom she conjured a new vision of how the universe moves and...

  
• 10.19.2023

  WF Nadra Nittle on bell hooks: We Can Create Our Own Spirituality

  LA writer Nadra Nittle, who previously appeared on the podcast to talk about her first book "Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature", returns to bring her deep research to the question of bell...

  
• 10.16.2023

  MW Mary Kawena Pukui + Morrnah Simeona: A Unified and Unifying Force

  In this episode, Risa attempts to learn more about the indigenous Hawai'ian practice of healing-in-community: Ho'oponopono.

  
• 10.12.2023

  WF Maria Minnis: An Invitation To Explore

  In today's episode, Amy is joined by tarot reader and teacher Maria Minnis (aka feminnis), author of the upcoming "Tarot for the Hard Work: An Archetypal Journey to Confront Racism and Inspire Collective Healing". We invite listeners to explore...

  
• 10.09.2023

  MW Mary Ellen Pleasant: I’d Rather Be a Corpse Than a Coward

  In today's scripted episode, Amy learns about Mary Ellen Pleasant, called the mother of San Francisco civil rights and a one-woman social agency. When the census taker passed through town for the United States Census of 1890, Mary Ellen Pleasant declared...

  
• 10.05.2023

  WF Tamiko Beyer, Destiny Hemphill and Lisbeth White: Poetry As Spellcasting

  Language is one of the original magics. Poetry is a prayer language. In today's episode, Amy is joined by Tamiko Beyer, Destiny Hemphill and Lisbeth White, the co-authors/co-editors of the new book "Poetry As Spellcasting: Poems, essays, and prompts...

  
• 10.02.2023

  MW Mary Oliver: I Got Saved By The Beauty Of The World

  In today's episode, Amy fosters her friendship, and hopefully yours too, with poet Mary Oliver, who's work is a love letter to nature, and to noticing. But Amy discovers that the real Mary was not exactly who we assume...

  
• 09.28.2023

  WF Sister Roma: Is There Anything Gayer Than Religion?

  We are so honoured and delighted to welcome into our circle Sister Roma of The Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence, the world’s most photographed nun, also the world’s most glamorous, beautiful, intelligent, world-changing, benevolent and inspiring nun. Roma says, "The...

  
• 09.25.2023

  MW The Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence: Promulgate Universal Joy And Expiate Stigmatic Guilt

  In today's episode, Amy investigates the story of the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence, a global order of queer Drag Nuns whose bad habits are a world-changing mission of social justice, volunteering, fundraising, consciousness-raising, joy-raising and generally throwing a monkey-wrench into...

  
• 09.21.2023

  Mabon 2023: Collaborating With Our Ideas w/ Christena Cleveland And Amanda Yates Garcia

  Happy Equinox! In celebration of the fall equinox, we sat down with Witch/Author Amanda Yates Garcia (Initiated) and Theologian/Author Christena Cleveland (God Is A Black Woman). Together we enter the deep soil to discuss balance - safety and...

  
• 09.04.2023

  "New Moon Magic" Audio Book Excerpt - Chapter 13, 13th Moon: Technology, Anarchy and The Web

  In the lead up to the release of our new book, AND an all new season of the Missing Witches podcast, we're sharing snippets of the audio book version of New Moon Magic. Today's excerpt is from Chapter 13, 13th...

  
• 08.28.2023

  "New Moon Magic" Audio Book Excerpt - Chapter 8 New Moon In Scorpio: The Circle

  In the lead up to the release of our new book, AND an all new season of the Missing Witches podcast, we're sharing snippets of the audio book version of New Moon Magic. Today's excerpt is from Chapter Chapter...

  
• 08.21.2023

  "New Moon Magic" Audio Book Excerpt - Chapter 7 New Moon In Libra: Geometry

  In the lead up to the release of our new book, AND an all new season of the Missing Witches podcast, we're sharing snippets of the audio book version of New Moon Magic. Today's excerpt is from Chapter 7...